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J. D. TRACE-Y. DEVICE FOR GAGING AND BINDING TABLETS. I No 354,953. Patented Dec. 28, 1886.

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JAMES D. TRAOEY, OF CANTON, NEW YORK.

DEVICE FOR GAGING AND BINDING TABLETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,953, dated December 28, 1886.

Application filed January 6,1886. Serial No.187,821. (No model.)

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inafter fully set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a device wherein the loose leaves of paper designed to be bound or secured together can be readily adjusted, so that their edges shall be in alignment and condition to receive the cement or strip of material, to provide improved means whereby the edges of the leaves shall be brought into convenient position to the operator to apply the cement, and to provide a clamping device for rigidly holding the leaves inplace while the cement is being applied.

I have shown an embodiment of my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the device adjusted for use to gage oneof the edges of the leaves. Figs. 2 and 3 are like views of the device in its different adjustments. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view of the device on the line a; a" of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view, partly in section.

Referring to the drawings, inwhich likeletters of reference denote corresponding parts in all the figures, Ais a base; B, a gage receptacle or box mounted and adapted to fold laterally on the base; 0, a bed-piece hinged to the gage-receptacle; D, a standard secured on the outer end of the bed-piece, and E a binding-screw which is mounted in the free end of a supporting-arm, E, that is arranged on the standard D.

The base A is preferably made inclined,and comprises a top, a, inclined side supports or pieces a, and a rear wall, of, that is also inclined and suitably secured to the top and side pieces; but I would have it understood that I do not desire to limit myself to the peculiar form of base herein shown and described.

The base A rests on a table or other place when the device is used for binding tablets, and at or near the middle of the top a of said base is hinged the gage receptacle or box B. This receptacle is designed to receive and hold the leaves ofpaper that are to be bound into tablets, and the size of the receptacle corresponds to the size of the leaves to be bound. The receptacle shown herein has its longitudinal axis of greater length than the transverse Y axis thereof, which is usually the form of tablets put on the market, and one end and one side of the receptacle are left open.

The receptacle comprises a bottom, b, an

end wall, I), secured at the lowerend of the bottom, a side wall, b suitably secured to the end wall and bottom, and a guiding-wall, b that extends downwardly from the upper end of the bottom b, to bear against the outer face of the rear wall, a of the base A, and laterally from the upper end ofthe side wall, I)", as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3. At the point where the side wall, b ,and the bottom I) of the paper-receptacle, which also serves as a gageboX, arejoined or connected together the said receptacle is hinged or pivotally connected, as

atf, to the top a of the base A, andthe gagebox is adapted to fold laterally over upon the base A, to bring its open side edge into acouvenient position for the operator to adjust and straighten the leaves of paper in said receptacle.

The bed piece or plate G normally rests on the upper face of the bottom of the paper-receptacle or gage-box, and this bed is of a shape and size corresponding to that of the gage-box and the tablet which is bound therein. One end of the bed 0 projects beyond the open end of the paper-receptacle or gage-box, and at the extreme outer open end of the gage-box the bed a is hinged thereto, as at c, to adapt the bed to be folded into a vertical position for the purpose of applying the cement to the edges of the tablet without smearing the gage box with the cement.

The standard D is rigidly mounted or secured in the free outer end of the bed 0, and it extends upwardly from the bed; The standard is preferably made circular in cross-secard and prevents the upward movement of the arm by frictional contact with the standard. The supporting-arm is adjustable vertically on the standard to adapt the binding-screw to bear on tablets of different heights, and said arm is free to move or swing laterally on the standard to bring the bindingscrew into or out of position for bearing on a tablet in the box or receptacle. The arm is readily removable from the standard, and at its outer free end the arm has a threaded socket in which is adjustably mounted a binding-screw, E, that has a band-wheel, e, at its upper .end, and a disk or head, 6, at its lower end.

A plate, G, is inserted between the head 6 of the binding-screw and the leaves of the tablet to protect the latter from injury by the head of the screw when the same is forced down on the tablet to hold the same rigidly in place.

The operation of my invention is as follows The baseAis placed on a table or other suitable place of support, and the gage-box or paper-receptacle and the foldable bed are ad- 0 justed to the positions shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The loose leaves of paper that are to be bound into a tablet are now put into the paper-receptacle in proper position and quantity. The ends of the leaves of paper are adjusted so that they are all in alignment or proper position against the end wall of said. receptacle, and the side edges of said leaves.

are similarly adjusted, if necessary, the laterally-folding gage box or receptacle being folded over upon the base A, to occupy the position shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, to bring the device within convenient position of the operator when the side edges of the leaves are to be adjusted. After the side edges of the leaves have been properly adjusted the gage box or receptacle is folded back into the position shown in Fig. 1, after which the protecting-plate G is fitted over the tablet and the supporting-arm E adjusted so that the binding-screw carried thereby will bear on or near the middle of the said plate. The binding-screw is now tightened to firmly and rigidly hold the leaves in place; and the bed 0 is now adjusted or folded into a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the edges thereof and the edges of the tablet carried thereby can receive the cement or paste that binds the tablet-leaves together without danger of applying the cement or paste to the gage box or receptacle, the vertical position of the bed and tablet being also more convenient to the operator and favorable to receiving the cement. The parts are permitted to remain in thisposition until the cement dries and hardens, which ordinarily takes but a short time, and after the cement dries the bindingscrew is released and the tablet removed. The bed-piece C is again folded within the gage box or receptacle and the device is adapted to be used again for binding another tablet, the operations or steps above described being carried out each time a tablet is bound.

By the use of my invention the leaves of paper that form the tablet are clamped in their proper positions without danger of displacement to receive the binding material; and the work can be easily adjusted while in its clamped condition to assume various positions which are more favorable to the operator in performing the necessarymanipulations upon the same. The device provides simple and cheap means whereby the operation of binding tablets can be rapidly and successfully accomplished with a reduction of labor to the operator.

When the laterally-foldable gage box or receptacle occupies either of the positions shown in Figs. 1 and 2, it rests firmly on the base, and the guidingwall b serves to guide the receptacle in its movements and to steady the same when adjusted to the proper position. The lower or outer free end of the'bed Crests against the wall 11 of the receptacle B when the bed is adjusted to its vertical position, and the standard, the supporting-arm, binding-screw, and tablet are carried by the bed when it is adjusted to its vertical position, and when the gage box or receptacle is folded laterally it carries with it the bed, its standard, &c., the base A only remaining stationary when the said box is adjusted laterally.

I do not desire to limit myself to the precise form and proportion of parts and to the details of construction herein shown and described as an embodiment of my invention, as I am aware that manychanges therein may be made without departing from-the principle or' sacrificing thejadvantages of my invention.

In the drawings, X designates the leaves of the tablet to be bound, held in place by the binding-screw.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a base, a receptacle or box hinged to the base and foldable laterally thereon, and a bed normally inclosed within the receptacle and adapted to be folded at an angle thereto, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a gage box or receptacle, afoldable bed hinged thereto and adapted to be extended at an angle therefrom, and a clamping device, substantially as described, for holding the leaves of a tablet to the bed, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a gage-box, a bed hinged thereto, a standard, and an adjustable screw-carrying arm mounted on the standard, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a gage-box, a foldable bed mounted thereon, a standard carried by the bed, and a supportingarm provided with a binding-screw and vertically and laterally adjustable on the standard, substantially as described. J

5. The combination of a base, a laterallyfoldable gage box or receptacle mounted thereon, a foldable bed carried by the gage-box, a standard supported on the free endof thebed, and a supporting-arm provided with a binding-screw and adj ustably fitted 011 the stand ard, substantially as described.

6. The combination of an inclined base, a gage box or receptacle hinged thereto and adapted to fold laterally thereon, a foldable bed hinged to an open end of the gage-box and adapted to assume a vertical position at right angles thereto, a standard, and a supportingarm carrying a binding-screw at its free end and vertically and laterally adjustable on the standard, substantially as described.

7. The combination ofa laterally-adj ustable gage-box, abed carried by thegage box,astandard mounted on the bed, a supporting-armhaving a socket of a diameter slightly larger than the standard and loosely fitted on the latter, and a binding screw mounted in the arm, whereby when the screw is adjusted to clamp a tablet the edges of the socket will bind andfirmly secure the arm on the standard, substanti ally as described.

8. In a device for binding tablets, the com- 0 bination of a base, a gage-box hinged thereto and adapted to befolded laterally thereon, a bed carried by the gage-box, a standard affixed to the bed, an arm fitted on the standard and adjustable vertically thereon and adapted 3 5 to be swung horizontally to describe a circle with the standard as a pivot, and a clampingscrew working in the arm, substantially as described.

9. In a device for binding tablets, the com- 40 bination of a gage-box, a bed, a standard, a vertically adjustable arm mounted on the standard and adapted to be swung horizontally to describe an arc of a circle with the standard as a center, and a clamping-screw 45 carried by the arm, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affiXed my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

JAMES D. TRAGEY.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN E. CHEETHAM, HENRY E. SEAVER. 

